Lizzy Caplan Quotes
I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.
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I like wearing scarves in my hair because they make me look put together without taking a lot of time.
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I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever.
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I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.
